Hybrida: poems

He, pronoun -- Creation myth -- Patience -- She, as painter -- Mankind is so fallible -- Milk -- Revolutionary kiss -- Fury -- Hybrida: a zuihitsu -- Long shadow -- Every Grimm -- Storm -- Astroturf -- Obedience, authority -- Boy with pavement, a painting -- 4 portraits -- Diversity -- Timeline for a body: 4 hours, 6 bullets -- War cloud -- Bitch -- At the end of the road was a sun -- Theory of war -- A poem called politics -- Freedom ghazal -- Vivid isolation -- The shifting kingdom -- 276 -- Devil -- Fever ghazal -- Burial, a lullaby -- Prophecy -- Color -- Roman's epilogue.;"A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed- race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In Hybrida, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son's blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era by invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown, Leiby Kletzky, and Noemi Álvarez Quillay--lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them--Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. Hybrida is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother's love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity"--